Here is the full text of the homily from Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, delivered at the sixth Novendiales Mass on May 1.

Leading the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church.Location: Vatican City.There are no official candidates for the papacy, but ...

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For more than 750 years, strict rules have guarded what cardinals can and cannot eat to prevent hidden messages stuffed ...

The prayer book is the “ Ordo Rituum Conclavis ” (“Rites of the Conclave”), which was approved by St. John Paul II in 1998, ...

Maneuvering has already begun ahead of the Conclave that starts next week. If a compromise is found in the current talks, it ...